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Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

Operators pump a sea of “produced water” underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water for farming and drinking.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

$Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images$

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

$A fracking site is situated on the outskirts of town in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images$

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

Landowners Fear Injection of Fracking Waste Threatens Aquifers in West Texas

Operators pump a sea of “produced water” underground for disposal. Intensifying tremors raise fears that the deep toxic waste pits could intermingle with water for farming and drinking.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, with photos by Pu Ying Huang, Texas Tribune

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

Fracking Waste Gets a Second Look to Ease Looming West Texas Water Shortage

By Dylan Baddour

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

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